Lise de la Salle’s
recording is dedicated to a composer with an anniversary being
celebrated - Franz Liszt, who was born 200 years ago. The CD
includes original works such as his Ballade No. 2 and
Funérailles, as well as some of Liszt’s numerous
arrangements of music by other composers including Mozart,
Schubert, Schumann, and Wagner.

Lise de la Salle was born in
1988 and began studying the piano at the age of four. She gave her
first concert at nine, and made her concerto debut in a live
broadcast on Radio France at the age of 13. Since 2001 she has
pursued an international career that has taken her to such venues
as the Berlin Philharmonie, the Hollywood Bowl, the Wigmore Hall in
London, the Met Museum in New York, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw,
and the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in
Paris.

De la Salle’s recording
presents a selection of Franz Liszt’s compositions for solo
piano that is both eclectic and fairly representative. Large-scale
works like the Ballade No 2 in B minor, Funérailles, and
Après une lecture du Dante, and shorter pieces such as
Nuages gris mix with arrangements of the music of others, including
Isolde’s Liebestod by Wagner and Ständchen by Franz
Schubert.